Janice Dean, Class of 1999

Assistant Attorney General, State of New York

Janice Dean is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, working in the Environmental Protection Bureau. She works with nuclear power regulation, hazardous waste law (“Superfund”), and issues of state law including protection of wetlands and fisheries, and redevelopment of contaminated properties known as brownfields.

Dean started her career in government right after graduation, joining the California Executive Fellowship Program with a placement in the Office of Governor Gray Davis, where she worked on land use issues like smart growth and environmental legislation including the first piece of environmental justice legislation passed in California.

Jim Fenske, Class of 1982

Architect

Fenske is an architect in Pasadena, California, where he builds green buildings that are based in recycling materials. His firm cuts trees (in mostly urban environments) in the San Francisco Bay Area and mill them in Richmond into beams, framing lumber, siding, counters and flooring. He designs and builds homes as passive solar structures. His firm has finished the design of their next house which will be Platinum LEED certified and will be partially built in a nearby factory that he hopes will produce many more structures similar to it. Fenske is also working towards obtaining federal and state support for "innovative methodologies" in the construction process.

Katya Bridwell, Class of 1975

Bidwell is the regional manager for pollution prevention, solid waste, and environmental condition of properties (due diligence) working with the US Navy. Her work involves compliance issues, preparation of reports, and audits of facilities.

Michelle Leonard, Class of 1980

Environmental Consultant

Leonard has worked in the environmental consulting field for approximately 25 years, with emphasis in solid waste management, recycling, and resource conservation. She provides consulting services to cities, counties, and private companies to help them design and implement waste reduction, recycling, and composting programs. She has prepared waste management master plans for cities and counties across the country, and is working on projects that combine resource conservation, sustainability, and alternative technologies for using waste as a source of energy.

Julie Anne Teel, Class of 1995

Teel received her J.D. from NYU's School of Law in 1999. She started
her legal career as the first law fellow at the Environmental Law
Institute in Washington, D.C.

Since that time, she has worked for
environmental protection, conservation, and sustainability in large part
through litigation under a variety of state and federal laws. While with
Earthjustice's Denver office, she supervised students as one of the
attorneys charged with running the environmental law clinic at the
University of Denver.

Teel is currently working as a Senior Research
Fellow at the Center for Energy & Environmental Security of the
University of Colorado at Boulder Law School after over eight years
working as an environmental attorney for non-profit organizations and
the City of San Diego. Her recent projects include:

Working with U.S.,
Brazilian, and Indonesian states and provinces on Reduced Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) efforts

Developing
culturally appropriate Tribal Energy Action and Climate Change
Adaptation Plans in consultation with three American Indian tribes in
the Southwest and tribal organizations

Creating a Colorado Energy
Profile for the Governor's Energy Office, which is a comprehensive,
online, and publicly accessible compilation and analysis of Colorado
energy resource data as well as federal, state, and local laws and
policies affecting renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts in
Colorado.